> The Presidency is also said to have been discouraged from using Fashanu's
> pronouncement as a lead because of an alleged demand for fee by the former
> footballer. Close to N500 million is reported to have been demanded by the
> United Kingdom (UK) resident, who justified the request by saying he has
> sank his personal money into the investigations.

Translation: "I need the money to buy my way up the bridge to total
freedom."

If I understand the situation correctly, the steps were as follows:

1) Nigeria had a huge debt, owed to by various banks.

2) Those banks had no faith that Nigeria could pay the debt.

3) Bright eyed and bushy tailed Bob Minton et al had faith that
Nigeria WOULD pay off their debt, or at least a portion of it.

4) Minton et al went to the banks who held the debt and made a deal
with them to buy the debt for roughly 20% of its face value. This was
much more than the banks believed they would get from Nigeria: the
banks were BETTING ON MINTON LOSING HIS SHIRT ON THE DEAL.

5) Minton sells the debt back to Nigeria for roughly 34% of its face
value, though a portion of the orginal face value, at 1%, went to
Greenland (US$45,000,000). Various portions went to accountants,
lawyers, etc.

6) Minton and crew won the wager they made with London Club et al who
sold the debt to him. That PISSED OFF the banks who tried to stiff
Minton et al, but got stiffed instead. Their lack of faith in
Nigeria's willingness and ability to pay some of the debt they owed
them cost them aproximately 80% of the debt's face value. Too fucking
bad: that's how the process is supposed to work! When they sold the
debt to Minton, they believed they were getting the better deal.

7) Scientology comes along and sees an opportunity to send Minton away
to prison, thus curbing Minton's campain of truth and education about
Scientology's crimes and human rights abuses.

8) Minton used that attack as yet another venue for exposing
Scientology's crimes and abuses.

9) Scientology, no longer having feet to shoot themselves in, shoots
itself in the knee.

The happy conclusion is that the banks lost; Nigeria and Minton won;
the people of Nigeria got a good deal; Scientology bleeds some more.